Re: [FWP] Testing list?

[sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)]

In article <4.2.2.20000102111820.00a2b3d0@mail.psdt.com>,
Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com> wrote:
>And so the above can be written as
>
>         @a = @a ? @a : (1, 2);
>
>which doesn't have any problem evaluating @a in multiple contexts.

How about:
{ my $var = 'aaa'; sub newvarname() {$var++} }
@{+newvarname} = 'hi';
@{+newvarname} = 'there';
print "@aaa @aab";

Should you be able to just replace the = with an ||= and have it work?

>It's merely a question of what would break if || propagated context as well.

|| does propagate context...to the right hand side.

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